Stan Smith (Stanley Roger Smith) Quotes
A lot of people now think Im a shoe. They dont even know I was a tennis player. The shoe has really taken on a life of its own, way beyond me.
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My father is actually a quarry man - he deals in stone. He also at one point had a lot of sheep, he owned a sheep farm, but primarily the family business was in stone.
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Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
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I work in a business of extremes, so when you are with someone who is very calm and logical, it's a great kind of balance to have.
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I think I felt at some point that I couldn't understand poetry or that it was beyond me or it didn't speak to my experience. I think that was because I hadn't yet found the right poems to invite me in.
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Life ain't always beautiful, but it's a beautiful ride.
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I think Shakespeare is like a dialect. If I heard a broad Scots accent, I'd probably struggle at first but then I'd start to look for words I recognise and I'd get the gist. I think Shakespeare is like that.
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I never wanted to be a model. My modelling career was nothing but a stepping stone to my acting career and that's all I ever saw it as. A pointless rock in the river that has to be stepped on in order to get to the meaningful oasis of acting.
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It made the most sense for us to select Sam Bowie. It was almost a no-brainer.
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The enmity of such a party towards Socialism does not mean that the members are only prejudiced against it because they do not know it; it means that they are possessed of bourgeois ideas, and wish to determine their policy accordingly.
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I have a great love for nature. That must have started somewhere down back home, I think, because my family own one of the better known gardens in Soochow, so I played there, and I lived there, and so I must have absorbed something there. So I continue to have a great interest in nature.
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I was quietly rebellious. My parents thought I was very good but secretly I did things like saying I was staying in one place and going somewhere else instead. My older sister was openly rebellious and would tell my parents where to go, but I never did that.
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Police have to have one of the most difficult jobs in society today. But at the same time, I think, a person in that position - their responsibility has to be high as well.
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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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Yes, we have the body here; this we have had before.
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To glorify man in his natural and unmodified self is no less surely, even if less obviously, idolatry than actually to bow down before a graven image.
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God gave us Lincoln and Liberty, let us fight for both.
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Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale. It cannot be fabricated out of public relations. It comes to us when we are alone, in quiet moments, in quiet places, when we suddenly realize that, knowing the good, we have done it; knowing the beautiful, we have served it; knowing the truth, we have spoken it.
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The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient.
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I work day-to-day on C# and .Net and work at home two days a week so I can do deep thinking, writing and reflecting.
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'Yes we can' always struck many as a naive and childish chant, like something ripped off from the Camp Fire Girls.
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The small are always dependent on the great; they are 'small' precisely because they think they are independent. The great thinker is one who can hear what is greatest in the work of other 'greats' and who can transform it in an original manner.
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I don't do a huge amount of physical activity. I play tennis, I work out sporadically, and I eat well and take care of myself.
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In history and in life one sometimes seems to glimpse a ferocious law which states: 'to he that has, will be given; from he that has not, will be taken away.'
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A lot of people now think Im a shoe. They dont even know I was a tennis player. The shoe has really taken on a life of its own, way beyond me.
